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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Faith Preceeds the Miracle

I am late writing yesterday's miracle because I was driving all night to reach Missouri to visit my friend who is very sick with cancer. I arrived here at 4am, and I am overcome with emotion right now.

Although I need to take a nap from the long drive, I couldn't sleep until I wrote the miracle that God gave me on the way here.

On Thursday, I had received a text saying that I should come visit my sick friend as soon as possible. The cost to drive our big E350 van would be around $400.00!. The money just wasn't in our budget; but because I felt like that was what I was supposed to do, I went anyway knowing that God would somehow provide.

On the way there, a friend we do business with sent me this text completely out of the blue: "Hi my sweet Rachel! We are finally at a place where we can pay the extra 400 so I'm glad that we were able to this month. Love you." I never asked this person to pay the extra or even expressed a need for it. We had talked about maybe eventually increasing the payment; but on her own, out of the blue, she just did it.

First of all, she is one amazing person to pay that much extra money when she wasn't even required to do so. She just felt inspired to do it, so she did.

Secondly, I thought the timing was a special part of this miracle. If I had received the text before I left on the trip, it would have been easy to make the choice to go. No faith would have been necessary to make the choice because I would have already known we had the money to do it. However, God wanted me to apply my faith before HE showed me the miracle. I felt the Spirit telling me to go; I went, and then I received the text saying that the exact amount of money we needed had already been deposited into our bank account.

When my father was serving as a missionary in Brazil many years ago, he became very sick and was bed-ridden. One of the 12 apostles in our church, Joseph Fielding Smith, came to his bedside. As a young man at the age of 20, my father asked him, "What is the most important thing I can do in this life?" His answer: "Have faith and trust in the Lord, Jesus Christ."

I believe that Jesus provides us with daily opportunities to increase our faith in HIM, and we have the agency to choose to act on that faith. I know that as we "have faith and trust in the Lord, Jesus Christ," miracles will follow.

About Me

I have a passion for the teachings of Jesus Christ and learned to speak Spanish fluently when I served as a missionary in Bolivia many years ago. I have crazy, ambitious dreams, and I couldn't have married a more supportive, patient man… Abe Mills. I graduated from BYU with a broadcasting/journalism degree and presently use that education to homeschool 6 of our 7 children.